So the New York Rangers hadn’t won a game here since St. Patrick’s Day 2009 -- which would be enough to drive any Blueshirts fan to drink, not that you need an excuse in this wonderful city.

So, if you’re the Rangers, who you gonna call to end their dry stretch?

Turns out it takes goaltender Cam Talbot and his Ghostbusters-themed mask to take down the Montreal Canadiens Saturday night at the Bell Centre.

A power-play goal by Rangers captain Ryan Callahan at 5:25 of the second period opened the scoring and ended goalie Carey Price’s shutout streak at 258 minutes and 28 seconds and was all the Rangers needed in what turned out to be a 1-0 win.

The loss saw the Canadiens record slip to 10-9-2 and 2-3-2 in their last seven games.

Rangers coach Alain Vigneault, the former Canadiens bench boss, had his team put the full-court press for most of the night, which left the Canadiens spending a good deal of time running around their own end.

When they did manage to find their way down to the New York end, Talbot used the nuclear accelerator on their chances.

Not that the Canadiens forwards were anything like, say, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.

Talbot, a 26-year-old from Caledonia, Ont., is a product of the University of Alabama-Huntsville, playing three seasons at that hockey factory.

The free agent bounced around the AHL and ECHL (with the Greenville Road Warriors as recently as 2010-11 season) before playing the last two seasons with the Rangers’ AHL farm club, the Connecticut Whale. He got the call to back up No. 1 netminder Henrik Lundqvist when Martin Biron was put on waivers last month.

The game marked the return of Canadiens defenceman Alexei Emelin, who had been out since last spring with a knee injury. He had formed an effective pair with veteran Andrei Markov last season, but the Canadiens coach staff opted not to break up the Markov-P.K. Subban combo. Emelin played Saturday’s contest with Francis Bouillon as his partner.

Price, who had the night off as Peter Budaj took the net in the Canadiens 3-2 shootout win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, played well against the Rangers and didn’t have much chance on the Callahan goal. It came at the end of a two-man advantage for the Rangers and saw Callahan tip a hard shot by Brad Richards.

Price made a couple of spectacular glove saves and gave his squad a chance to win, something that was no doubt noticed by Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli -- also a consultant for Team Canada -- who watched from the press box.

With their team not doing much to hold their attention, Canadiens fans spent the latter part of the third period chanting “GSP,” in honour of local hero Georges St. Pierre who was to fight a welterweight bout later in the evening at UFC 167 in Las Vegas.